Buzz Break: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (giant box)

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The box: 2024 Topps Heritage baseball cards (giant)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)
First Buzz preview, odds & checklist: Click here

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

Packs per box: 17
Cards per pack: 9
Cards per box: 153
Base set completion: 
135 of 400 (34 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Spencer Strider, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, George Brett, Mike Schmidt, Aaron Judge, Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Nellie Fox, Ernie Banks, Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey, Shohei Ohtani, Ronald Acuña Jr., Bobby Witt Jr., Joey Votto, Dansby Swanson, Christopher Morel

RC logo cards (34) – Notables include Colton Cowser, Heston Kjerstad, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Henry Davis, Jordan Lawlar ... see all rookies in gallery. (Deep crop not a bunch of notables this time.) 

Insert/short-print cards: 18 (all in gallery below with some base)
Short-prints (Nos. 1-100) (6) – Shohei Ohtani, Carlos Santana, Harold Ramirez, Sonny Gray, Dominic Smith, Luis Campusano
Baseball Flashbacks (1) – Nolan Ryan
News Flashbacks (1) – Margaret Thatcher
New-age Performers (2) – Shohei Ohtani, Nolan Arenado
Baseball Sensations (2) – Bobby Witt Jr., Jim Palmer
Then & Now (1) – Shohei Ohtani & Fred Lynn
Zoo's Who (1) – Baltimore Orioles
White parallels (1) – Bryan Reynolds
Red parallels (3) – Kyle Harrison, Rowdy Tellez, Carlos Correa (all with White notations on back)

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: There's been ample chatter about there being potential double-printed or short-printed cards among the cards not meant to be short-printed here and, well, I'd tend to believe it with this one lacking a lot of name stars among the 400 standard cards here ... and if it weren't for the blasé MVPs subset (just like it was in 1975) it'd be even worse. If intentional, this kind of move is one that leads me to buy less ... not more. My rookies helped out a bit with a pair of Orioles notables but one had excessive edge damage though a lot of the issues that popped up in hanger boxes (see my past breaks) didn't here ... so that's a plus. This one didn't deliver exactly as the odds say they should for the format (it was close) but ultimately it didn't matter as this was the kind of break where you keep looking for something better in the next pack but it didn't happen. The larger format here gave a better view of the mix and the possibilities for sure -- way better than hangers for the variety as those basically have two inserts and the rest base -- but the vast amount of stuff here was just common fodder even still ... though the rookie volume was high. I said in my other breaks, it just feels like this brand is one that needs to be adding to its lineup as it finishes off the late-1970s if the goal is to sell more ... this one still needs more. This one wasn't really that impressive -- and I've been a buyer of Heritage -- and a lot of its offshoot brethren -- every year since 2001. It needs to deliver more ... or at least deliver cleanly. The stock here is light and chippy -- too light and chippy -- while the backs are often too dark to read things on them, which isn't ideal, either. The printing and cutting is cleaner than 1975, though, and the colorful yet industrial spirit of the 1975 design comes through here for sure. The design is arguably better than much of the last five years for H re-dos, but I'm not sure the end result in the here and now is. (Still not sure yet, really.) I have one more hanger and one more of these to come here at some point soon. Hobby is still your best way to go here for sure.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: B- (helped only by a couple rookies and some Ohtani inserts)
Fun Grade: C (Where are the base card stars?)

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